Stories by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone.
First Republicans screwed up on Iraq, sending thousands of Americans to their deaths. Then they refused to apologize. And now they're going to pay for it in the 2008 elections.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
In Iraq, private contractors are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.
Posted on Aug 30, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
The author responds to reader questions, sharing his views on the 2008 election and that while he's often attacked for being a Hunter Thompson wannabe, the writer he's actually trying to rip off is H.L. Mencken.
Posted on Jun 26, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
Despite the walloping defeat of the Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections that seemed to spell the end of neocon rule in Washington, the clowns are once again spilling out of the Volkswagen.
Posted on Jun 15, 2007, Source: Adbusters
He's cashing in on 9/11, working with Karl Rove's henchmen and in cahoots with a Swift Boat-style attack on Hillary. By all accounts, he's a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.
Posted on Jun 7, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
The Democrats' endorsement of this crude neocolonial exploitation plan makes them accomplices in the occupation, and further legitimizes the insurgency.
Posted on May 10, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
The Democrats' endorsement of this crude neocolonial exploitation plan makes them accomplices in the occupation, and further legitimizes the insurgency.
Posted on May 9, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
It must be somehow beneficial to the American power apparatus to demean the individuals who seek to occupy its highest offices.
Posted on May 3, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
What is it about the 2008 presidential race that forces candidates to perform like the lowest, scraggliest, street-hungriest organ grinder monkeys the world has ever seen?
Posted on May 1, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
With his drunkenness, his perfect and instinctive amorality, his effortless thievery, and his casual use of lethal force, Boris Yeltsin represented a type intimately familiar to all Russians.
Posted on Apr 24, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
People say that Don Imus isn't funny, but let's face it, there is a joke in all of this -- a joke on the black community.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
People say that Don Imus isn't funny, but let's face it, there is a joke in all of this -- a joke on the black community.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
You'll hear a lot in the next 20 months about which candidate has bony hands, who looks good in a parka -- but you won't hear anything about who voted for the bankruptcy bill and who didn't.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
After the Iraq timetable vote has passed the Senate, it seems like the Democrats, Republicans, and White House are all suspiciously happy.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
Republicans ran Congress like a basement cockfighting ring for years, and now they are freaking out at the civility that the Democratic majority is extending them.
Posted on Mar 21, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
Hillary Clinton told the press that the morality of homosexuality is for "others to conclude." How calculating can you get?
Posted on Mar 14, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
As the political class and the media establishment wake up to the nightmare in Iraq they are going to start looking for someone to scapegoat -- and it looks like they are going to blame the American people.
Posted on Mar 7, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
America's growing economic dependence on the hi-tech defense industry is creating a culture that views peace and nonviolence as seditious concepts.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
Posted on Feb 20, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
The "talent of the century" hits the campaign trail, and while it isn't clear who Obama really is, he's certainly helping make it clear who the bad candidates are.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
Joe Klein is the living incarnation of American "conventional wisdom" -- a spineless, slavish watcher of polls who has no problem whatsoever denying today what he said yesterday.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
If the right-wing media keeps spreading lies like the one about Barack Obama supposedly going to a madrassa as a child, it's time to consider hiring the meanest lawyers on the planet to fight these creeps.
Posted on Jan 31, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
The august Senator from New York kicks off her campaign by stealing lyrics from cheesy teen idol singer, Corbin Bleu, and uttering market-tested DLC nonsense.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
Bush's announced 'surge' is one of the more outrageous media deceptions in the history of an Iraq war that has been rife with them.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
When will we recognize that the best thing we can do in Iraq is to get out of there?
Posted on Jan 5, 2007, Source: RollingStone.com
At the year's end, a look back on the birth of the media's hate era.
Posted on Dec 29, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
The Left Behind video game encourages you to celebrate the birth of Jesus by wasting dozens of people at a time, using a variety of Christ-sanctioned weapons.
Posted on Dec 20, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had a feast this week and his main course was George Bush with an apple in his mouth.
Posted on Dec 12, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
For the Iraq disaster to end, someone in DC is actually going to have to make a difficult decision -- admit defeat, invite a bloody civil war, lose face before a pair of rogue terror-supporting states -- and it's obvious that no one's ever going to do that, not until there's absolutely no choice.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
The Litvinenko murder is the world's first act of nuclear terrorism -- here's a rundown on the theories of who could be behind this attack.
Posted on Nov 28, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
And this is the guy who has a 'close friendship' with George Bush?
Posted on Nov 21, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
With the '06 election barely in the rearview mirror, out comes the media's two-year long presidential campaign rumor and buzz industry.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
It's dangerous to allow history to be written that it was "the Republicans" who got us into Iraq -- a lot of America's mushy moderate media and political establishment thought the invasion was a great idea at the time.
Posted on Nov 5, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Much of the faulty logic and circumstancial evidence that justifies the 9/11 conspiracies are repeats of the theories that abounded in Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Will Democrats spend their first moments in the majority issuing a nasty payback for a decade of Republican punishment?
Posted on Oct 17, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
America doesn't need to try harder. China needs to stop using slave labor. If you see things any other way, you've probably got a factory in the Suzhou industrial park. Or you're taking money from someone who does.
Posted on Oct 3, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Why the "9/11 Truth" movement makes the Left Behind series read like Shakespeare.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
The billions we're spending on the worthless F-22 fighter plane is just the latest taxpayer rip-off. When will the military-industrial complex get the smackdown it deserves?
Posted on Sep 19, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Five years after 9/11, the country still hasn't asked what motives the terrorists may have had in their attacks.
Posted on Sep 14, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Senator Joe Biden is the ultimate creep Democrat -- happy to attack Rumsfeld when Iraq is polling badly, and arch defender of the credit industries that have put thousands of US troops abroad in bankruptcy.
Posted on Sep 7, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
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